I want political leaders who will lead us toward peace and prosperity, not toward war. As I noted last night, the sparring between and Ron Paul over the question of a nuclear Iran stood out in last night’s Iowa Republican debate. I think Paul is right, and the threat of war with Iran is something […]
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Thursday’s Fox News debate in Iowa came to a head when Ron Paul and clashed heatedly over foreign policy. The segment came after Fox News host Bret Baier tried repeatedly to trip up congressman Paul with hypothetical questions on intelligence of a fully nuclear Iran. Ron Paul’s clear and compelling case against a war with […]
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Not that the endorsement of a famous political blogger from the UK will make much difference in Iowa, but the long-time Tory-in-America blogger Andrew Sullivan has come out forcefully for Ron Paul. Sullivan is a gay, Catholic conservative who has been writing about politics for decades and who led the charge into new media. He […]
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Occupy successfully disrupted operations at the Port of this week, but their actions further alienate the movement from average American workers. Occupy may be facing evictions and other trip-ups across the nation, but in the movement is taking matters into its own hands. For the second time in as many months, Occupy protesters have disrupted […]
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Jon Huntsman’s path to the nomination is built on the front-runners in the race tearing each other to pieces. Will it work? Daniel Larison calls the recent one-on-one foreign policy debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich a self-congratulatory failure barely worthy of the term ‘debate:’ To the extent that Huntsman has helped lend valuable credibility […]
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American corporations under pressure from a Florida-based family-values organization are pulling dollars from TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim.’ Meanwhile, America wages a drone war that has killed countless civilians, including children, in Afghanistan. The Florida Family Association has asked major advertisers to pull their ads and ad dollars from TLC’s reality TV show ‘All-American Muslim‘ and according […]
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is not a fan of Newt Gingrich, and he’s not shy about it either. On the Judge Nepalitano show on Fox, Beck said of the former Speaker, “If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama… ask yourself this, Tea Party: is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears […]
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In the ABC Iowa debate, Newt Gingrich claimed that he never lobbied for when he was on their payroll and that all the money he earned was for work done in the private sector. Tim Carney of the Examiner begs to differ: Newt Gingrich may not have meant it as a laugh line when he […]
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In the ABC Iowa debate Saturday night, Ron Paul contradicted former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that the Palestinians are an ‘invented people.’ Earlier in the week, Gingrich made the controversial remark, saying that he believes that “the Jewish people have the right to a state … Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. […]
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Nearly every elected official in Congress voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill placing domestic terrorism investigations into the hands of the US Military. We need to elect more politicians willing to vote ‘Nay.’ Over on Google Plus, in a response to this very excellent post by Alex Tabbarok, Jim Henley writes: The […]
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